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H: How to make private Facebook "likes" on a page?
In constant urge to keep myself updated on what's going on in other universities, I would like to like the official Facebook pages of these universities; but I also want to keep this activity private and not want to share it on my wall as to which universities I have recently liked.
Currently, I like the university and then goto my wall and remove the wall post, isn't there a privacy customization for it?
AI: Hit this link path:
Account > Privacy Settings > Connecting on Facebook - View Settings
It'll take you to a page entitled, "Choose Your Privacy Settings > Connecting on Facebook"
Scroll down to the last section, "See your likes, activities and other connections"
Set the privacy on that to Only Me.
Now, when you like a university (or anything else) it shouldn't show up on your wall. |
H: Why does Gmail spell check not recognize the word "inbox"?
It seems strange to me that a word that appears right on the page before me whenever I am typing an email is flagged as misspelled when I type it. Does the spell check function draw from some antiquated database that lacks this basic word?
AI: The spellcheck that marks words spelled incorrectly with a red squiggly line comes from your browser. You'll need to update that dictionary if you want words like "inbox" marked in the good and clear.
Gmail's spellchecker doesn't kick in until you hit the "Check Spelling" link upper-right to the email body. Any words spelt wrong will then be highlighted on a yellow background. |
H: Why does Facebook want me to add more friends?
Facebook keeps spamming me with different variations of "Friend Finder", "Find more friends" & co (mostly on the right column, where the ads belong), and I'm just wondering: why are they doing that?
I already have more than 250 friends, so they could see that I'm not new to Facebook, and it's likely that I already added almost all of my friends and people-I-know-enough-to-be-considered-by-Facebook-as-a-friend. So their goal is not to help me find real friends (that is, somehow improve my Facebook experience), but just to add more connections to their social graph. So if there is no interest for me in that, there must be some interest for them, but I don't see it.
Also my primary thought was that more friends = more information about me = more targeted advertising = more profit for them, but I'm really not sure if adding people who are not my real friends would help Facebook target me better...
What's the explanation?
AI: First, Facebook as a whole is more valuable if it maximises user volumes. So they're never going to stop wanting you to add that new friend from some other address book.
Second, the Facebook experience is pretty lame if you have only a few Facebook friends. So creating a new link may be a marginal value gain for you, but it may help the other party get into the sweet spot and become a regular and committed user.
More speculatively, Facebook ads themselves seem (from what I get offered, anyway), pretty feeble, so maybe there's an element of Facebook improving your general perception of the right-hand column by sometimes not even showing you some horrible, mis-targeted ad and just doing self-promotion, not caring all that much whether you respond. In this case, you've responded indirectly by talking about Facebook, I'm making a mental note to see if I am getting that same treatment, and we're both even more bought into the idea that Facebook is an unassailable, valuable site in a way that Myspace and other toppled social media towers must not have been! |
H: Google Mail showing all labels in inbox; how to do like Hotmail folders?
I want to display mails like Hotmail. Hotmail displays inbox items separately from other labels/folders. But in Gmail even after creating filter with labels all mails appear in inbox.
How do I make Gmail work like Hotmail? That is, all the filters should go to their respective folders and should not display in inbox.
For example, if i had created a label "map" and I have created a filter which should assign the "map" label to it if it contains certain chars in its domain name, then what I want is all map items to be inside "map" label and not in inbox. Maybe it is that labels are different form the concept of Hotmail's folder option.
So I want to ask here does Gmail have an option like Hotmail to automatically move the incoming mail to the specific folder according the filter we create?
AI: Gmail labels are different than folders, in that a message (or conversation) can have multiple labels. Generally speaking a message can only exist in one "folder".
It's easy to simulate labels as folders, however. Just make sure a message only ever has one label. "Inbox" is a special label in Gmail, but it's still just a label.
To do this automatically, when you create your filter to move the message to the label(s) you want, also check "Skip the Inbox". Then new messages that meet your filter criteria will not be in the Inbox. |
H: Can I exclude spam domains from my search results?
Sometimes when I search for something, there are plenty of links to sites with no content (those who only have the premade templates which the search terms), spammers, and leechers (as in copying content from other sites, like B r o t h e r s o f t who leeches on SoftPedia.com).
How come they have such a high ranking without any original content (furthermore, why are they not simply banned from the results)?
And also, is there some way of filtering them out? Like for example completely exclude a domain from search results?
AI: Check out this Google Chrome extension:
Tired of the same spammy scraper sites and useless "Pay to view" pages clogging up your search results? Search Filter is the answer.
When installed, a delete button will show up next to the URL in your search results. When a domain has been deleted, it is removed from all search results for all search terms. An Options page is provided to remove filters.
Supported search engines are: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ddgjlkmkllmpdhegaliddgplookikmjf?hl=en-gb
found via:
Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results? |
H: Cannot find Diigo "Send to blog" button
I'm looking at this Diigo site and would love to use the button but I cannot find the buttons they mention:
Do you have the same situation like me?
AI: First go to your library and turn on Advance mode
Then, select the resource(s) that you will use in your new post and select "Publish to blog" |
H: Facebook: how to selectively make status updates visible only to certain groups?
My friends list has people from work and my real friends. By default, I want my status updates to be visible only to my friends. And sometimes I want may want my updates to be visible to everyone. What are my options in setting something like this up?
AI: Three easy steps:
Create two lists (Account > Edit Friends > Create a List): Real Friends and Co-workers; sort FB friends accordingly
Account > Privacy Settings > Customize Settings > Posts By Me > Customize >
Under "Make this visible to" on the line labeled "These people:" select "Specific People..." and type the names of the lists or individuals
When posting status, click on the padlock icon to change visibility from the default you set above
N.B.: Lists are not the same as Groups. Lists are private and under your control - nobody knows which of your lists they belong to nor can they remove themselves from your lists. |
H: Is there a search engine for looking up a pantone color by company that owns it
I know some pantone colors are registered to particular companies. For example there is a specific pantone for Tiffany Blue (1837). Pantone.com seems to let you search by code, but is there a site that I can type "IBM Blue" or "Tiffany Blue" and get the pantone code for?
To clarify my specific needs, I work for an ad firm as a developer. It would be convenient to be able to look up the registered pantone colors of my clients when I don't have access to them.
AI: There is an insane PDF here apparently listing every known color trademark.
Trademarks are vague things... they're not like domain names, where it's very clear who owns which one. The intent of trademark law is that competitors are not permitted to do things which might reasonably cause confusion as to the origin of a product. So, for example, a jewelry store that opened up across the street from Tiffany and used powder-blue boxes might get in trouble, even if they used a slightly different color, but a camera company could use the exact same color as Tiffany in their logo and packaging and possibly get away with it because they are in a different business and reasonable people would not be confused into thinking the cameras came from Tiffany. |
H: Can I upload images to Google Code ?
Can I upload images to Google Code?
I was wondering if I can upload all my project resources such as .png files.
AI: Absolutely. Just include them as resources in your SVN. |
H: How to calculate weighted averages in Google Sheets?
I have a Google Sheets where products are listed as rows and attributes as columns. Each product's attribute is rated on a scale of 1-10. My last column is an average of these values (i.e. =Average(B2:D2)). This works fine if each attribute has the same weight.
+--------+-------+-------+-------+---------+
| | Attr1 | Attr2 | Attr3 | Overall |
+--------+-------+-------+-------+---------+
| Prod 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| Prod 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6.33 |
| Prod 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5.33 |
+--------+-------+-------+-------+---------+
The problem is that I want each attribute to have a different weight. For example, Attr1 might not be important and should only be worth 50%, while Attr3 is very important and should be worth 300%.
+--------+-------------+-------+--------------+---------+
| | Attr1 (50%) | Attr2 | Attr3 (300%) | Overall |
+--------+-------------+-------+--------------+---------+
| Prod 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8.89 |
| Prod 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7.11 |
| Prod 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5.78 |
+--------+-------------+-------+--------------+---------+
The value for the first row would be:
(10*0.5 + 8*1 + 9*3) / (0.5+1+3) = 8.89
which could be calculated by using:
(
B2*(IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(B1, "\d+"), 100)/100)
+ C2*(IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(C1, "\d+"), 100)/100)
+ D2*(IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(D1, "\d+"), 100)/100)
) / (
IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(B1, "\d+"), 100)/100
+ IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(C1, "\d+"), 100)/100
+ IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(D1, "\d+"), 100)/100
)
which, as you can see, can become very difficult to manage as more attributes are added. Ideally, I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require creating temporary cells to help with the calculations.
Is there any built in function or a common convention that can help me calculate these weighted averages?
AI: There is no built in function to calculate the weighted average so you have to write a custom function if you want to avoid using too many temporary cells. So here is how you can achieve your goal.
Go to Tools > Scripts > Script editor..., Copy/Paste the bellow code and save it:
function weightedAverage(v, w) {
var sum_v = 0;
var sum_w = 0;
if (v[0].length != w[0].length) {
return "#ERROR: Incorrect number of values and weights";
}
for (var c = 0; c < v[0].length; ++c) {
sum_v += v[0][c] * w[0][c];
sum_w += w[0][c];
}
return sum_v/sum_w;
}
Use it like:
=weightedAverage(B3:D3,$B$2:$D$2)
Where B3:D3 are your values and $B$2:$D$2 your weights. It's not error proof (the only check is to make sure both arrays have the same length) but it will do the trick.
In the above example I'm not trying to extract the weights from the title of the attribute, but I'm reading them from the second row (B2:D2) to make our life easier and clearer. The $ is not changing the result of the formula. It's only affecting what's happening when you're copying the formula in another cell. The part of the cell reference following the $ will not change (link for more details). Write the formula once in the cell E3 and Copy it to the rest of the rows to see it in action. |
H: Is it possible to use a loop in Google Spreadsheets?
I have the following document:
+---+-----------+
| | A |
+---+-----------+
| 1 | Foo (100) |
| 2 | Bar (30) |
| 3 | Baz (50) |
+---+-----------+
I'd like to use a REGEXEXTRACT to extract the numbers from each row in column A and then total them. For example:
=SUM(REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "\d+"), REGEXEXTRACT(A2, "\d+"), REGEXEXTRACT(A3, "\d+"))
The problem is that this list will grow and for each row, I will need to make the formula even longer. Ideally I want a way to loop on all items such as:
=SUM_LOOP(A1:A3, REGEXEXTRACT(CELL, "\d+"))
... where the first argument is the range to loop over and CELL is the current cell in the loop.
I know that I can easily do this by creating a column to the right using a formula such as =REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "\d+") and then expanding it downwards, and performing a SUM on this new column, but I would like to avoid creating a new column if possible.
AI: If you have row array with your values you can use this custom function to calculate the sum of the numbers (you can't use REGEXEXTRACT in the Script Editor, instead you have to use the JavaScript's RegExp function):
function sumLoop(v) {
var sum = 0;
for (var c = 0; c < v[0].length; c++) {
var pattern = new RegExp("\\d+", "gi");
sum += parseFloat(pattern.exec(v[0][c]));
}
return sum;
}
For some reason if in the above function we'll ask for the number of rows (v.length as they mention in Google Forums), it returns an error.
So in order to see it action do the following, after copying the above function in the Script Editor:
+---+-----------+----------+----------+-----------------+
| | A | B | C | D |
+---+-----------+----------+----------+-----------------+
| 1 | Foo (100) | Bar (30) | Baz (50) | =sumLoop(A1:C1) |
+---+-----------+----------+----------+-----------------+ |
H: Encapsulate a set of Google calendars
As a user of Google Calendar, I can set up my account to display a set of individual calendars (say three ... Ron's, Jeff's and Conf Room A's).
Is there any way to encapsulate this set of calendars and expose it?
The goal would be to be able to put a single link on a web page that, when clicked, would display a single view with the three calendars (Ron's, Jeff's and Conf Room A's).
AI: I had a similar need, and was able to create an "aggregate" calendar from several individual calendars.
This fellow has laid out the steps very nicely: https://web.archive.org/web/20180728073609/http://murphymac.com/share-busy-free-info-for-multiple-google-calendars/ |
H: Is it possible to delete recursively all deleted files/folders permanently?
Given a Dropbox folder which has many hidden deleted files/folder, currently I have to delete them manually sub folder by sub folder.
Is it possible to delete them all quickly?
AI: To test your problem,
I created multiple sub-folders (non-empty) within a TEST folder.
I selected the TEST folder and then clicked DELETE from the drop down list.
ALL folders/sub-folders within disappeared. I did all this from within the web interface.
If someone else can verify this behaviour, I'd be much obliged.
UPDATE
Enable Keyboard Shortcuts from within Account Settings
Next, switch to your folder list and click SHOW DELETED FILES or just press d
Press p to SELECT ALL DELETED ITEMS
From the MORE dropdown, click permanently delete
This ought to make your task easier. |
H: Convert a Yahoo account to a Delicious account
I use Delicious + the Firefox extension to manage my bookmarks.
Unfortunately, my Delicious account is plugged to my Yahoo account, which can stay logged in for only two weeks, keeps asking me to change my password and secret question quite often, and requires to login in a separate page.
See the login page here: https://secure.delicious.com/login?jump=ub
I have to use my Yahoo ID to log in, which is really annoying.
I would like to switch back to a default Delicious account. Is it possible?
AI: I think I found my answer here:
http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=3581
All new accounts must use Yahoo's login system. |
H: Making embedded YouTube videos start loading before playing
I am embedding a YouTube video in my website. Is it possible to make the clip start loading before the user presses play?
(I would not like the video to start playing automatically.)
AI: You'd probably have to write your own YouTube player to do it. They have coded it this way on purpose; it really cuts down on the bandwidth on YouTube's servers. Think about all the people that might visit a site, but not click the button...they would still download the file anyways, wasting both their and Google's bandwidth. |
H: Editing Google Code source from web?
I'm using an iPad and would really like to work on a LaTeX document that I have in a google code project. Are there any apps that allow you to edit a document off an SVN server?
Related question: Downloading code from Google Code without using a version control system
AI: Since you are using an iPad, there should be an app for that. I found iVersion:
With iVersion you can vie and edit
your source code even when your away
from your desktop.
I haven't tried it my self but it looks promising. |
H: How to see all tweets to a particular user
I am following a certain person on twitter. I then started following another person who is also following him. I noticed that after I did this I could see the tweets that this person was making to that person which I did not see previously.
How can I see all the tweets that people are making to a particular individual? Do I have to follow all of his followers, or is there an easier way?
AI: To see all tweets, from anyone, directed to a certain user, you can simply search for "@username". For example, try https://twitter.com/search?q=%40codinghorror to see all replies to Jeff Atwood.
I think I originally misunderstood the question, here's my original response:
Yeah, person A's Twitter replies to person B (tweets that begin with B's @username) are only visible in the Twitter stream of those followers of A who also follow B. I think this feature is fairly non-obvious, especially for new users.
To my knowledge, the easiest way to see also the "@ replies" (without following the other user) is to go to the user's profile (at the Twitter website: http://twitter.com/username, or through some Twitter client) and see their full tweet list there. However, then you'll of course see "@ replies" to everyone, not just to the individual you were interested in. To put it otherwise: no, there isn't an easier way. To see full "conversations" in your feed, you'll have to follow both (or all) parties taking part. |
H: Share Links With Friends
I am looking for a solution to share links-with-tagging with my friends, like DZone but just with my friends.
AI: I think SpringPad, or delicious, could be good candidates. |
H: What's the biggest .csv file you can import into a Google Sheets?
I'm trying to upload/import a 7 MB .csv file to Google Sheets without much luck.
What's the largest file size that you can import?
AI: Taken from this Help article on Google Docs:
Editor note: Some parts of the below data are obsolete, better to look at the above link.
Updated - 7th Nov 2017
File sizes
These are the documents, spreadsheets, and presentation sizes you can
store in Google Drive.
Documents: Up to 1.02 million characters. If you convert a text document to Google Docs format, it can be up to 50 MB.
Spreadsheets: Up to 2 million cells for spreadsheets that are created in or converted to Google Sheets.
Presentations: Up to 100 MB for presentations converted to Google Slides.
All other files: Up to 5 TB.
Supported file types
These are the most common file types you can view in Google Drive:
General files
Archive files (.ZIP, .RAR, tar, gzip)
Audio formats (MP3, MPEG, WAV, .ogg)
Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP)
Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS)
Text files (.TXT)
Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg)
Adobe files
Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
Illustrator (.AI)
Photoshop (.PSD)
Portable Document Format (.PDF)
PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF) - best with RGB .TIFF images
TrueType (.TTF)
Microsoft files
Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
So your file size doesn't seem to be an issue - maybe it is the number of columns and/or cells? |
H: Whole word search in Gmail
I´m trying to find the string 0 in Gmail.
When I try searching for 0, Gmail shows me emails with strings like 0.049 but I am not interested in them. I am interested in emails that contein a zero isolated or in other words... I am trying to find the string " 0 ". How can I do this?
AI: Unfortunately, you cannot do this in Gmail because it doesn't support stem searching nor symbol searching.
Gmail separates words on most symbols, meaning that your 0.049 is being split up into the words 0 and 049. When you search for 0, it finds a match in the first word.
The reason that " 0 " wouldn't work is that Gmail ignores whitespace, which means that it is the exact same thing as searching for 0.
If Gmail did support stem searching and symbol searching, you could use something like -0.* to negate those terms you don't want to find. However, even then this wouldn't be accurate since an email containing the following 0 test 0.049, would incorrectly not be matched due to the negation in the search query.
Here are several solutions I can think of:
If there is a common word followed by the 0, you can search for both of them (e.g. "0 test").
If there is a small amount of numbers that you don't want to match, you could exclude them using a search such as 0 -049 -050 -051, however, keep in mind that this will still have the same problem that an email with the text 0 test 0.049 won't be matched.
Similar to the above solution, you could negate a search term, so you could use 0 -"0 049" "0 050" "0 051", this still has the same limitation as the above one. The only additional advantage it has is that it will still match an email with 0 test 049, which may reduce the amount of incorrectly unmatched emails.
If possible, change the email to convert the numbers to a single word with a character such as _ separating the numbers. So instead of 0.049, your email would contain 0_049, which should be treated as a single word. This way the search 0 will match correctly. Obviously doing something like this can be very easy (e.g. if you are generating the emails yourself) or very difficult (e.g. if you have no control over how the emails are sent). |
H: Dropbox.com as backup system for my Ubuntu
Can I have multple drop boxes (dropbox.com) or Ubuntu One accounts on a single machine (Ubuntu 9.04 or 10.04) to backup multiple projects ?
AI: Even though there are some workarounds it's strongly not recommended, because either of these services were designed to handle that. Also if it's used to get some extra quota it's against Dropbox's ToS and I'm pretty sure that it is against the Ubuntu One's as well.
Here is what a Dropbox dude (N.N.) said on this matter:
HELLo!
Note that in the vast majority of cases where people are asking about multiple accounts is best solved by Shared Folders. Unless there are two different people using the same computer, which different OS accounts is the proper way of handling it.
Third party applications and hacks that are designed to get multiple Dropbox instances running at the same time for one user is not recommended, not only because they are completely unsupported (by the Dropbox team at least), but also because Dropbox is not meant to be utilized in such a manner. So the chance of issues is a lot higher than running Dropbox as per normal.
PS: Also, please keep in mind that using multiple Dropbox accounts to circumvent our quota limitations is against our ToS.
Happy syncin'! |
H: What domains are covered by AdSense?
I've had a ton of websites over the years and most of them are collecting tumbleweeds. Many of them have AdSense on them.
I logged into AdSense the other day in an attempt to figure out what domains I am still using. I can't figure out, using their interface, what domains I have setup under that specific Google login.
Is there a way to figure that out?
AI: In the help for adsense:
The code generated in your account is
valid for any page on any site where
you want to display ads. Simply add
the code to your page source and we'll
automatically detect the new site.
Which means that unless you used authorized domains features (which you probably didn't as it is mostly more convenient not to), you are down to search what you have on the sites for your adsense ID's etc.
You may have added a URL to track into the reports page - under Performance Reports (top bar)->URL Channels, but I do not think these are automatic. |
H: Sort articles alphabetically
I have a feed in Google Reader with about 500 unread articles in it over the last four months (probably 100 read ones are interspersed in there too). I need to be able to sort them alphabetically by title, but Google only offers chronological sorting options.
I'm fine with using external applications (an offline reader?), manual processes (export to .csv?), whatever. All I require is:
A) the title
B) the link
C) able to sort alphabetically by the title
D) only the unread items.
AI: In the right top corner click "settings". Then click "Reader settings". Open "Folders and Tags" tab. All of them are default private. Click "private" next to the one that you want and set it as "public". click "view public page". On that page there is a link labeled "Atom feed". Click it (do it i Firefox because Chrome by default don't try to subscribe). Firefox asks you with which program would you want to subscribe to that feed. Choose Outlook if you have (or another RSS/atom subscriber tool). Than you can sort it as you wish by which column you want. |
H: goo.gl: no URL history
I've shortened and shared several URLs with goo.gl during the last few days. I'm logged in and have tested the URLs to work, but the URL history seems to remain empty, only showing:
No entries found. Start building your goo.gl short URL history now!
What's going on?
AI: I found what was causing the problem.
The bookmarklet that I used didn't allow the URL to be added to my account history.
javascript:document.location='http://savanttools.com/get2post.asp?x-form-action=http://goo.gl/action/shorten&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location.href)
Going back to doing it manually for now. |
H: Received an email intended for another person
I'm not really sure how email routing works, but someone ordered something on Amazon and I received the email instead of them. Or maybe we both got it, I don't know. The order doesn't show up in my account, so I'm certain I wasn't charged for it, but I shouldn't be getting other peoples' emails.
We'll say that my email is [email protected], and somebody who's email is [email protected] places an order on Amazon. The confirmation email is sent to me at [email protected]. I checked the email header, and it did say To: [email protected] which is not my email address.
At first I thought that Google ignores periods in email addresses, but I tested the account setup and it doesn't give any error when you put a period in the address. I didn't create the account; I just used the "check availability" function and the address I chose with a period was fine.
Maybe someone with knowledge about how Email works could tell me why this happened. Is this a bug in the way Amazon sends emails? Or is it a bug in how Google receives them? Who should I report this issue to?
AI: Gmail does indeed ignore dots in addresses. Go to Gmail's help page about Receiving someone else's mail and read the section titled "Your address is similar but has more or fewer dots (.) or different capitalization." |
H: Possible to have multiple admin profiles update a single Facebook page?
I have a page for a government entity that has multiple profiles that are administrator of the page. Is it possible to setup the administrator accounts in such a way that any posts they make are automatically posted to the administered account?
AI: In essence, no.
You can try something like Hootsuite whose CRM and delegation would probably help anyway. |
H: Do customized bit.ly links ever expire?
I'm about to send out "save the date" announcements for my wedding soon, and wanted to include a link to a our wedding page hosted on a popular planning site, theknot.com. The link options they gave us stink, so I setup a custom bit.ly URL, but I couldn't find any information about if (or when) the customized URL's expire (I know the standard shortened URL's don't expire).
Do they expire?
AI: No. They don't expire.
Can I delete a bit.ly link?
We believe that being a legitimate shortening service means offering permanent URLs. Our users can feel confident that the bit.ly links they create don't unexpectedly disappear or expire.
If you're worried that might not extend to custom links:
No, all bit.ly links and custom names are permanent by design |
H: Disable images on Google Reader
How do I disable images in feeds on Google Reader?
I am open to using browser extensions and URL hacks but not alternatives to Google Reader itself.
Disabling images across the browser isn't acceptable either.
AI: You can achieve this by adding a filter to the AdBlock extension.
Install AdBlock and add this filter rule:
google.com##DIV[class="item-body"] IMG |
H: How to backup a Posterous blog?
Short of using 3rd party tools, is there a way of backing up a Posterous blog? If not, how do you suggest I do it (using 3rd party tools)?
AI: By using their reading API 2.0 :
Login to your posterous account
Visit http://posterous.com/api/2/users/me/sites/primary/posts
You will receive a json file containing all your posts content. |
H: Can I customize my Facebook layout?
I know this got out of hand on MySpace and I don't think I've seen it on Facebook. Do they provide any way to do this?
AI: Facebook does not directly provide a service to customize your layout; but there are some 3rd party services / plugins on the net to provide Facebook layouts to your profile. I have never tried them but Naevius is one of them.
A search for "facebook layouts" using your favourite search engine should turn up some more. |
H: How do I change a JSFiddle to no longer be public?
I created a new JSFiddle and made it public by entering a title upon saving it the first time.
If I try removing the title and then updating the script and setting the new version as the base, the original script which I made public still appears in my public profile with a -0 at the end. Is there any way to remove this script from the public listing?
AI: It seems that this is a caching problem. I just refreshed the list after several minutes and the script no longer appears in that list.
To remove a JSFiddle script from your public profile:
Open the script.
Open the Info tab on the left.
Delete the text in the title.
Press Update.
In this new version of the script, set it as the base version.
Wait several minutes for the script to be cleared from your public profile page.
As @zalun noted, the script is still accessible by anyone that has the URL to that script. This solution will simply remove it from your public profile. |
H: How do I make a script public in JSFiddle?
If I have a private script, how can I make it public?
According to JSFiddle, the script must be the base version and have a title.
My current script has no title. I tried entering in a title and then updating the script. The problem is that it then no longer becomes the base version of the script. If I try changing it to become the base version, the title disappears.
AI: It seems that this is also a caching problem, if you wait several minutes and then refresh your public profile, the script will appear there. Similarly, if you refresh the base script while editing it (make sure to save your changes!), the title should appear there as well.
To make a JSFiddle script public:
Open the script.
Open the Info tab on the left.
Enter in a title for the script.
Press Update.
In this new version of the script, set it as the base version.
Wait several minutes for the script to be visible in your public profile page. |
H: How can I see which versions of a JSFiddle are available?
JSFiddle uses urls in the form of http://jsfiddle.net/<user>/<script>/<revision>/ where revision is an incremental number. Is there any way to see other revisions of a script easily via a GUI interface or is the only way to manipulate the URL?
Is there any easy way to know how many revisions a script has without needing to manually increment the variable and check to see if a script exists there?
AI: One way to know how many versions of a script you have is to press the delete button near the script in your dashboard. It will warn you with a message such as the following:
You're about to permanently delete <script>, and <num> of its revisions.
Another way is to update the script which will cause the script to use the latest revision number available in the URL. |
H: Can I associate a GitHub gist with an organization?
My team has a GitHub organization account. A lot of the work I do results in one-off scripts that we want to be able to have on our organization page but that aren't big enough projects to justify their own repository.
Is there any way to associate Gists with GitHub organization accounts?
If not, what's the best way to 'check-in' or associate smaller scripts into GitHub's shared organizational repository?
AI: Found the answer on Github's support site (now archived here):
The answer, as of October 2010, is No.
It's planned but we don't have a
timeframe available -- sorry about
that. |
H: How to search only in chat history in Gmail
When I do a search in Gmail, all my mail is searched, but I only want to search my chats. Is this possible?
AI: Use is:chats. It will search for chat messages. Example: is:chat monkey — meaning any chat message including the word “monkey”.
Here you can find a lot more advanced search options. |
H: What storage space / daily storage is available in messages on Facebook?
Gmail storage space is ~ 7000 MB for me. What can I expect for Facebook.
Can I send projects/videos across the platform without any holdup?
AI: I believe it is advertised as unlimited,
E.g. in 2007 Facebook Photo Storage was as follows
Allow me to geek out and share some
photo infrastructure statistics with
you. We have:
1.7 billion user photos
2.2 billion friends tagged in user photos
160 terabytes of photo storage used
with an extra 60 terabytes available
60+ million photos added each week
which take up 5 terabytes of disk
space
3+ billion photo images served to
users every day
100,000+ images served per second
during our peak traffic windows
This month, the Facebook Engineering Team talked a bit about the messaging platform on their blog
Since Messages accepts data from many
sources such as email and SMS, we
decided to write an application server
from scratch instead of using our
generic Web infrastructure to handle
all decision making for a user's
messages. It interfaces with a large
number of other services: we store
attachments in Haystack
And Haystack is currently being used for Photos.
Though if you start racking up tens of gigabytes, it will get ugly. |
H: Can you see if a person has read your message in Facebook?
Can I check or see if the recipient has read the message I sent them?
Where in Facebook do I go to see if this is possible?
AI: From now on, yes. Facebook provides Read Receipts for its users.
How do I know if a friend has seen a message I sent?
When someone sees your most recent message, it will be marked as seen.
That way, you always know who got the message, and who didn't.
Messages are marked as seen if the person is actively chatting or
checking their messages.
This feature is part of every message you send, whether it's from your
phone or the web. |
H: How to move an already uploaded image into an album in Imgur
I can't seem to find a way to move my uploaded images into an album on Imgur.
Am I missing something? Is it not possible?
AI: You need to do the following:
Click on Albums
Click on the album you want add images to
select Add or Remove images
A Select images for this album pop-up then appears. The boxes on the left allow to add images that are not in albums, or all images.
So click on Non-album images, select the ones you want moved into the selected album, then click Save. |
H: Queue photo uploads to Flickr
I would like to do a 365 project on Flickr, but don't really want to upload my pictures one/day, but rather do a series of uploads in a queue, or at least with programmable publications dates, so that I can do my, say next ten days, in one go – and each day one picture gets uploaded/activated at Flickr.
Is there a way to schedule uploads to Flickr?
AI: Here's a web app for that purpose: FlickrQ |
H: Looking for geo-taxonomies libraries
Can I create a geo-taxonomy map by using all tags and locations of Flickr?
Otherwise, is there any geo-taxonomy library I can use for my experiments describing world (or smaller areas) with tags?
AI: I think Google Maps geolocation API is what you are looking for. |
H: Sort by IP in Sharepoint list
I have a column in Sharepoint containing IP-addresses.
I can't figure out how to sort them correctly.
They are being sorted like this:
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.100
192.168.1.2
Rather than
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.100
The only "solution" I can find was this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sv-SE/sharepointgeneral/thread/c0902e45-0427-4081-b64a-b41ecaecf900
However, I have tried the formula suggestions and they simply don't work correctly. I have tried by using two columns with a formula each and by using one column with the combined formula:
=LEFT([Internal IP];7)&RIGHT([Internal IP];3)
It seems silly to me that sorting numbers would be such a hassle. Have I missed something?
AI: This is actually pretty easy, I've done this in SQL Server for a long time. You just need to stop thinking of the data as an IP address. There is an old trick called bit twiddling that can be used to convert the value to an integer first. For example, 192.168.0.1 becomes 3232235521. Integers are fast and easy to sort. After doing the conversion, you drop the integer into a hidden computed column and do the sort on that column.
So if you have a text column called IPAddress and a calculated field called Integer, you would add this formula to compute the Integer column - it's really just a little binary math and you only end up storing an additional Int32 by treating each octet as a byte:
=VALUE(IF(NOT(ISBLANK([IPAddress]));(LEFT([IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)-1)*16777216)+(MID([IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1;FIND(".";[IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1)-FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)-1)*65536)+(MID([IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1)+1;
FIND(".";[IPAddress];FIND(".";[IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1)+1)-FIND(".";[IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1)-1)*256)+(RIGHT([IPAddress];
LEN([IPAddress])-FIND(".";[IPAddress];
FIND(".";[IPAddress];FIND(".";[IPAddress];1)+1)+1)));0))
Then create a view that sorts by the hidden calcualted field Integer. If you need to sort IPv6 addresses, the concept is the same, but you're converting from hex values to binary to integers and you'll use more storage. |
H: Translate to multiple languages
Is there a service that allows the simultaneous translation to multiple languages?
For example I would type in a word and get it translated to the 20 most common languages.
AI: Nice Translator do just that.
50+ langages available. |
H: Can I Host Multiple Websites on Different Domains within A Single Google Apps for Business Account?
I have 2 domains: example1.com and example2.com
Example1.com is all setup, have a simple website, email users, shared calendar, etc.
I need to put up a 1-page site under domain example2.com.
I upgraded to Google Apps for Business, which enables me to add another Domain, under Domain Settings.
I created a new website, but when I went to map the second site to example2.com domain, I only get the option to put in a sub-domain name, for example: [___].example1.com
Since Google Apps for Business gives me the ability to add multiple domains to my account, can't I point example2.com at the second site?
Or, is adding a domain, simply for gmail purposes only?
AI: I apologize for answering my own question, but short of no info, this will have to do.
It appears that the only benefit and/or settings I can find on Google Apps for Business in regard to Domains is as follows:
Domain Settings/Domain Names: Add a domain
Gmail: Seems the only thing one can do with an additional Domain is manage Domain-specific Gmail accounts. |
H: Does MailChimp host images for HTML emails?
If I want to send out HTML emails via MailChimp, would they host images for me or do I have to do it on my own server?
AI: From MailChimp Full Feature List :
Free Image and File Hosting
Upload images and files into your campaign without having to worry about extra charges. |
H: Can you find the Intelligence Squared podcast?
There's a link on this page http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/catholic-church to the "Intelligence Squared podcast", but it's some strange link that works only in iTunes. I have Rhythmbox. Can anyone find the actual RSS feed? I assume there's an RSS feed in there somewhere.
AI: I booted into Windows, downloaded iTunes, subscribed to the podcast, right-clicked on the podcast and selected "Copy podcast URL". Pasted into a browser address bar, and had a look at it. It's http://iq2.podbean.com/feed/. And this feed is linked to from http://iq2.podbean.com/. The "subscribe in iTunes" button there is the normal type, which links to the feed directly, using the itpc: pseudo-protocol which Rhythmbox also understands.
So I booted back into Ubuntu and subscribed without difficulty.
I really don't understand why the main IQ2 site can't have a normal link like that, instead of making us jump through hoops. |
H: Can I see who I've blocked in Twitter?
Is there a page on Twitter where you can view all the users you have blocked (similar to viewing your block list on Facebook)?
AI: There isn't a way to do this using Twitter, you can only do this using a 3rd Party Site or App.
Try http://www.twitblock.org/
click the "more options" link
then select "Manage your blocks" direct link
You will then need log in to Twitter using the link provided to allow access to your account |
H: When a post is modified, does Google Reader notice?
I often click on a post's feed, so as to go to the post's site, just to make sure I'm not reading outdated information. Does Google Reader update the post's contents, so I don't have to keep doing this?
AI: Simple answer is no.
More complex answer is...
As far as I know, Google Reader is only a RSS reader. A good one, but only a reader. If you don't know the RSS format (or Atom, for that purpose, there is no difference), just follow me a little.
A RSS file contains a list of dated events. Basically, in a feed, there are some infos for each event:
event date
event name
event source URL
event text
What Google Reader displays is the event text. And absolutely no source site text content. However, there are some cases where the source site can send new events when the content is modified. In such cases, Google Reader will display both events, with different text.
EDIT
According to Tshepang
I just tested now. Can you add to your answer that if one updates a post, and then refreshes Reader (by clicking on the Refresh button), the Reader contents are indeed refreshed. Note that sometimes this is instant, and sometimes takes minutes |
H: I had a shared Google Doc but the person who shared it deleted their account and the doc is gone, is there way to get it back?
When the account was deleted all documents they shared with me(months of work) disappeared.
AI: I'm afraid not. If the account is deleted everything is deleted with it - regardless of whether a document is shared or not.
There is no way to recover the deleted items via Google Docs. |
H: How to replace a video on YouTube
I need to make a small correction in a video I uploaded to YouTube. Googling shows that this is not possible. However, I remember seeing it done before. I posted a comment on a video saying that a certain part of the video was missing. I got a reply back that it was fixed, and when I went to see the video again, it was changed. How was this done?
AI: Videos can not be replaced, but they can be edited.
Quote from YouTube Help (Replace or delete your video):
You can’t replace a video since any new video uploads will get a new URL, but you can make changes to the existing video. |
H: How can I have an assistant manage my Gmail contacts without the worry of them being utterly destroyed?
I would like to have an assistant (virtual) clean up my contacts through Gmail. I can give that person my password so they can logon as me, but I would love it if they could have their own restricted account.
Ideally I could recover changes they made in case they deleted everything.
EDIT
Can I give them access to only my contacts so that they don't delete my 15GB of email?
AI: An alternative would be to
export your contacts from gmail
send the contacts to your assistant
have that assistant create a fresh gmail account, import and clean the contacts there
and then get an export back from your assistant
that you then use to replace your contacts in gmail. |
H: Is there a web app for coordinating office hours with students?
I am trying to find a time for office hours that accommodates all of my students.
Does there exist a web app that will let me determine, say, two different 1-hour blocks of time for which my students are all free for at least half of each hour? I've already determined that for every half-hour block of time, at least two students have a conflict (and so my naive algorithm for solving this problem doesn't work).
There are of course hacks to do this: I could have each student create a google calendar and add them all to one calendar. I am simply optimistic that someone has already implemented a better way to do this.
AI: Yes, try Doodle. |
H: How should I clean out my Gmail inbox?
So I've been using GMail for a couple of years now.
Back in the early days I was a member of a rather high-volume mailing list. And since GMail had effectively infinite storage, I just saved everything rather than cleaning it out.
However I've found I practically never refer to any of these emails; and when I do, I'm more likely to trip over them in web archives while doing web searches.
So I'd like to get rid of most of them since there's no point in keeping them.
Out of my 800+MB box, I estimate about 600MB are messages from this list.
My problem is that I can't seem to efficiently delete them.
If I use mutt through IMAP to look at the mailbox, it times out while trying to read the 60K+ messages in the All Mail folder. If I do manage to read the whole folder successfully (mutt seems to barf if a message gets delivered to my gmail while reading the folder) I can't write changes back because mutt seems to want to update all the messages at the same time, and I've never successfully managed to do that.
I can import the whole folder into something like Outlook (ick), but I can only delete about 200 messages in one go before the commits back to the GMail server start to fail.
GMail's built-in interface seems to want to make me do it 20 messages at a time, and well I don't have that kind of time.
So what tools/techniques do people use when they decide it is time to clean out the GMail box?
Update: I guess I should specify here that I don't want to delete them all, I'd like to hang on to those I wrote, which for various reasons are mixed up in the mess with the rest of them. So I can't just delete all messages marked '[list]' for example.
AI: You will first need to separate the messages that you want to keep from those you want to delete.
I'm not sure I understood the question entirely, but there are a few methods to do this:
Use a search query to filter on those that you want to keep (e.g. label:list from:me), then either use this query negated in the next step, or star/label these messages.
Go through the 60K+ messages manually. As you do so, you should either star them or add them to a label.
Search for messages that you know you want to keep based on keywords and manually mark them with a star or label. As you do this, you should negate those that have already been selected to keep the list small. So for example, if you know that a message you want to keep has the words "save this", you would run "save this" -is:starred, then select the messages and star them.
You might already have the messages in a specific label, in which case you are ready for the next step.
Now you can simply run a query to select all those messages you want to delete and subtract those that you want to keep. Simply run a query such as: label:list -is:starred. Next, select all the messages in the list (you will need to tell Gmail to select all messages not just the first 20 by clicking the link above the list of messages). Once all of them are selected, you can simply delete them.
In case you want to use a label instead of stars, simply use -label:foo instead of -is:starred in your query. |
H: How does LastPass store my passwords on their website?
LastPass advertises that they do local encryption of passwords before they are transferred and stored on their website. However, when I log in with my past password, I can access all my passwords in clear text there. Doesn't this imply that they also have access to all my passwords? How can I verify that they do not have access to my passwords?
AI: All encryption/decryption occurs on your computer, not on our servers. This means that your sensitive data does not travel over the Internet and it never touches our servers, only the encrypted data does.
[...]
Your encryption key is created from your email address and Master Password. Your Master Password is never sent to LastPass, only a one-way hash of your password when authenticating, which means that the components that make up your key remain local. This is why it is very important to remember your LastPass Master Password; we do not know it and without it your encrypted data is meaningless. LastPass also offers advanced security options that let you add more layers of protection.
Source: http://lastpass.com/help.php?topic=whysafe&nw=1&fromwebsite=1
In other words, your computer encrypts your passwords with your email and master password and sends that data to Lastpass. When you authenticate with your master password at Lastpass.com, Lastpass.com returns all your encrypted passwords, which are decrypted locally on your computer with your email and master password. Every communication happens over SSL, so anything intercepted is doubly useless (since everything is encrypted with not just the SSL keys but with your email and master password).
The best way to ensure this is to set up a script to monitor network activity and see if anything that is decrypted (including the master password) goes to lastpass.com. Based on what I've seen on forums, it seems other users have done this and found nothing suspicious. |
H: Mirroring a particular web page?
I have a particular page that I want to refer users who have DNS problems:
How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?
However, there is a catch-22 -- users who are having DNS problems may not be able to reach our sites and read that page!
Thus, I need a reliable long-term mirror of this web page on another domain, either for free or as a paid service. Ideally, one that would periodically ping the source and keep it up to date with any changes as well.
I found some community built mirroring services to make sites "Digg-proof" or "Reddit-proof" but these are ad-hoc and not guaranteed to work for the long term.
Are there any webapps that offer reliable long term mirroring of individual web pages? Or any other webapp I can use to achieve this functionality?
AI: The only semi-reliable thing I could think of was linking to the page in the Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fsuperuser.com%2Fquestions%2F231977%2Fhow-do-i-diagnose-not-being-able-to-reach-a-specific-website-as-an-end-user
But you can't control how frequently it's updated, etc. Also, not the prettiest of URIs (although there's always the shortened link). And the Google cached URI scheme has changed over the years. Maybe using the stock google.com query with the cache operator would be more reliable. |
H: How many friends I can tag on my Facebook photo?
How many friends I can tag on my Facebook photo?
Can I tag all of my 1000 friends on a single photo?
AI: A 800x600px photo would display each of you friends maximal on a average of 480px. For example a area of 20x24px for each friend. I don't think that one could identify all of their 1000 'friends' to tag them. So answer is no! |
H: How to export mail from Squirrel Mail?
Is there some magical undocumented way to export mail from Squirrel Mail? I'd like to move some of my friends (who are using my providers mail-hosting services) over to Gmail but I'm clueless as to how to go about doing it.
AI: I've done it before, but it wasn't as magical as you may have hoped for. As Squirrel Mail uses IMAP, there is no tool that I can think of that allows to transfer the emails and the folder structure directly to Gmail. However, you can do it in two steps that way:
Part 1) Set up Outlook Express to use their IMAP server (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264580 for instructions on how to set it up properly). Then sync the folders, which will download all the emails.
Part 2) Use Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook to upload the emails in your Gmail account.
Two parts tweak, but at least it works :) |
H: Does Mint.com have an API to download data? If not, are any scraping tools available?
I have been using mint.com for some time to track my personal finances, and I'd like to be able to download my data so I can perform more in-depth analysis than what is provided on the site. Mint.com also lost a good chunk of my data recently, and their customer service is less than stellar, so I'd like to keep a copy locally.
Obviously, an API provided by mint.com would be ideal, but as far as I know there isn't one available. Let me know if I've missed that.
A second option is to write a script that authenticates to mint.com and scrapes the site periodically. Has anybody attempted to do this (in any language on any platform)? I have a feeling it would be a little more difficult than sending a password to a login page and saving the session cookie returned in the response.
A third option is to write a plugin (firefox or chrome) that saves the data when I am logged in and looking at the site.
I figure that other people have attempted to get their data out of mint, so I thought I'd ask before putting in the time to do it myself.
AI: Unfortunately, Mint does not have an API. |
H: Does Google Docs have these features?
I have used Google Docs for my documents.
And I just knew Evernote which has some awesome features.
Evernote is very nice.
Especially I like the features.
tagging (and it can be searched later)
clipping to Evernote
send data via email (you know, [email protected])
I want to remember everything as soon as I can.
And Evernote is a powerful tool what I wanted.
But I've used Google Docs for long time, and I'm using many other Google services.
Can Google Docs do these? -or are there official plans?
I don't care if it is little inconvenient.
AI: Tagging - this isn't a standard function in Google Docs, I think the closest you can come is setting up folders. searching through the documents is pretty easy (as you'd expect from Google!)
Clipping - Can't be done natively, I think I read about an app someone had produced that would do this, but I never tried it.
Email - I think this used to happen, but I don't think so anymore. However, you can always email to your gmail account and then open the document in Google docs, this would add it to your library. |
H: Buying extra storage from Google for more than one year
Is it possible to buy Gmail extra storage for more than one year at once?
AI: No this is not possible, but it will be renewed automatically if you won't cancel it. They are sending an e-mail when it is close to the end.
Don't forget that the storage prices are usually getting cheeper over time and you don't really want to prepay that. |
H: What happens to your Facebook account when you die?
If a Facebook user dies, what happens to their Facebook account? Is it deleted after a certain period? Should their friends or relatives inform Facebook that they are dead?
AI: You can report this to Facebook requesting that they remove the account or memorialize the account.
From Facebook FAQ:
How do I report a deceased user or an account that needs to be
memorialized and deactivated or
deleted?
Memorializing the account:
Please report this information here so
that we can memorialize this person’s
account. Memorializing the account
restricts profile access to confirmed
friends only. Please note that in
order to protect the privacy of the
deceased user, we cannot provide login
information for the account to anyone.
We do honor requests from close family
members to close the account
completely.
Removing the account:
Immediate family
members may request the removal of a
loved one’s account. This will
completely remove the account from
Facebook so that no one can view it.
We will not restore the account or
provide information on its content
unless required by law. If you are
requesting a removal and are not an
immediate family member of the
deceased, your request will not be
processed, but the account will be
memorialized.
To make a request to memorialize or
remove a profile, please do so here.
If you have a special request
regarding a deceased user's account,
please use this form. Please note that
this form is only to be used for
accounts that have already been
memorialized.
The Facebook FAQ page can be found here |
H: On SourceForge, is there a way to receive a notification when a project releases a new version?
There was a time when it was easy to subscribe to a project and receive mail when a new release came out. Then the new subscriptions was suspended because of a site upgrade and I was still receiving the mails from previously subscribed projects but I never found the option to subscribe to new projects, even when the upgrade was finished.
Was the option restored? Where is it?
AI: You can subscribe to a File Release RSS.
Taken from :
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Links%20to%20available%20site-wide%20RSS%20feeds
Project RSS Feed: Project File Releases
Description: A feed of the most recent file releases made by a
project, including details of the > files included in the release.
Related site URL (i.e. source of content): File Release page for
project URL to feed: Project-specific URL
Feed options: &rss_limit=LIMIT
- Limit (or increase the limit of) the number items shown in the feed
(default 10, max 100) where LIMIT is a positive integer
Feed usage: Rather than monitoring a file release package and receiving
updates via email, you may instead use this RSS feed to keep apprised
of when file releases are made by a project.
Content notes: This feed includes basic file release information
(title); as well as the username of the developer who handled the file
release, a listing of files within the > release, and links to downloadable
files and release notes (description). Additional information about the File
Release System may be found in our, "Guide to the File Release System". |
H: Disposable proxy for a phone number?
I am in the process of making a deal on Craigslist but I do not really want to release my phone number to someone who I will eventually forget after a while and I am sure the next person would feel the same.
So I desire some application that I can give my phone number, that returns either:
a next phone number (I give this to the next person and they can call it which then connects us) or
a link (something similar to bit.ly, except for phone numbers).
Whichever representation, it should have an expiry date. When the person uses this as proxy for my phone number we can connect using our phones without ever releasing our personal information.
Are there any applications with the features needed to keep my number private for a call like described above?
AI: A quick search found a few options.
CraigsNumber has either morphed into or merged with Numbr but it's not currently available. Too bad, as it looked spot on.
iNumbr lets you get another number, but it's no longer a free service ($6.99/month). Certainly it's not for "throwaway" numbers, although you could use it that way.
Another service is Babble.ly. It doesn't provide you with a phone number, but gives you a link that when the other person clicks will ring your phone.
Jangl is similar to Babble.ly, where you exchange Jangl codes which you can each use to get a phone number to use to call each other that is itself disposable, but it's also currently unavailable.
Babble.ly looks like your best option. |
H: Gmail account "hacked"
Someone from China recently gained access to my gmail account. When I see the logs, it does show a Chinese IP address.
The account activity logs show
Browser * India (KA) (14.96.25.209) 18:20 (0 minutes ago)
Browser India (KA) (14.96.25.209) 18:07 (12 minutes ago)
Browser India (KA) (14.96.25.209) 17:47 (33 minutes ago)
Browser China (58.48.146.157) 17:44 (36 minutes ago)
Browser India (KA) (14.96.25.209) 17:11 (1 hour ago)
Browser India (KA) (14.96.25.209) 16:53 (1 hour ago)
Browser India (TN) (14.96.116.139) 13:40 (4 hours ago)
Browser India (TN) (14.96.116.139) 13:07 (5 hours ago)
Browser India (TN) (14.96.116.139) 12:40 (5 hours ago)
Browser India (TN) (14.96.116.139) 12:16 (6 hours ago)
Now, while I did manage to change my password within a minute or so after the chinese guy got in, I have no idea how it happened. Also, gmail did not give me any notification of unusual account activity.
My laptop has a fresh,updated install of windows 7, with MSE installed, so its unlikely my password was taken from there, and I will be uninstalling a 3rd party app I was using on my cell to access Gmail.
What I want to ask is:
1) Are there any scans,etc. that I should run on my computer to secure it?
2) Why would gmail not show chinese activity on a gmail account never accessed outside India as suspicious activity?
AI: If you used the same e-mail password as for another site, it is possible that that site was compromised, and they obtained your password that way. But it's still worth running a full virus scan on your computer anyway. Most virus scanners can detect keyloggers these days (the most likely form of attack). |
H: Can I rotate already uploaded videos on YouTube?
Is it possible to rotate (90 degrees) already uploaded videos on YouTube?
AI: There is no longer any way to rotate existing videos without re-uploading.
As of 22 August 2018, most of the video editing features were removed from YouTube. You are expected to use a separate video editing tool for most things.
If you have uploaded a video and afterwards decide you should have rotated it, you will need to use a video editor to rotate the original and re-upload. If you no longer have the original you can download the video from your YouTube account and follow the same edit/re-upload process.
You can view the full post from Jordan on the YouTube Help Forum, but here are the relevant details:
As of August 22, the following will no longer be available in Creator Studio Classic:
Note: Any videos published with enhancements before August 22 will not be affected. Also, we’re not planning to bring the below classic
Enhancement features to YouTube Studio beta.
Auto-fix
Stabilize
Fill Light
Contrast
Saturation
Color Temperature
Slow Motion
Timelapse
Filters
Rotate
Features that will still be available in Creator Studio Classic (and coming soon to YouTube Studio beta):
Trim
Blur faces
Custom Blurring |
H: Why doesn't this Google query work as I expect?
I expect this Google query
-site:ripper234 link:ripper234.com/p
to return all links to my posts (pages starting with http://ripper234.com/p) that do not originate from my blog. This doesn't seem to be working. Any idea why?
AI: link does not work like that. I don't think it even works properly.
You could try
"ripper234.com/p" -site:ripper234.com
or just add Google analytics |
H: Hotmail registration date
Does anyone know if there's a place where you can see the date you've registered your Hotmail or Live email address?
AI: Your Windows Live account page should show a "Registered since" date. (This is for any Live/MSN account, not just for Hotmail.) |
H: Free web application (or framework) to manage sport group events
I am looking for a free web application to manage the sport outings of my caving association.
I would like :
a way for the members of my association to login (the other should not be able to see the events)
a way for the members to create a new outing
a way for the members to RSVP to an outing
a calendar view of the next outings
an email alert for all the new created outing
Something a little bit like http://www.meetup.com/ but for associations.
If there is no free web application available on internet, I am ready to create my own application (I am a developer). However I would like to start with a framework/CMS which could easily meet my needs.
AI: A lot of PHP User Groups are hosted on Meetup. I guess it's going to work for your association as well. |
H: How do I make a bookmark / favorite / weblink that opens a webpage in a small window?
How do I make a bookmark / favorite / weblink or command line command, that opens a webpage in a small window?
For example, this page for BBC Radio 6 has a link for Listen Live, which opens the player in a small window. But when I bookmark that window and use it, I get a full sized window.
I guess it is done with JavaScript. But how do I find the JavaScript used, and how do I apply it to a bookmark file (or command line)?
AI: You are correct you do this using JavaScript.
Create a new bookmark and instead of putting the web address in you would use this:
javascript:function LoadPlayer() { return window.open("http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_6music","BBC 6 Music","scrollbars=no,menubar=no,height=721,width=400,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no");} LoadPlayer();
When you click the bookmark it will open in a new window.
The JavaScript used to do this is called window.open |
H: Explanation of how one can search youtube.com/music
Currently the youtube.com/music page looks like
But these are the same artists over and over again.
Example
Name: Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow [G-Mix] ft. Snoop Dogg, Juicy J & T-Pain
Date of YouTube Video release : January 07, 2011
Sure maybe this guy is popular ever single day but if it updated every two hours shouldn't other videos appear ? (smaller views but relatively high velocity bowerypresents is an example yes but it seems they are a partner])
The graph for the video statistics show almost flat line characteristics with the biggest referral from YouTube/music with 397,704 views.
Ignoring this, if I were to click the Play all button, there are only 8 videos as Today's Hits. What if I wanted the top 10/20 hits ?
Moving to a genre... a similar issue occurs,
it is not Genres, but Popular Genres. Alright so the categories are at the top.
Let us try reggae http://www.youtube.com/music/reggae
Check the second video
Shaggy - Angel ft. Rayvon (C) 2001
But apparently it is Today's Top hit in reggae.
Also notice the threshold for # of videos in top hits per genre are 12.
So basically whatever can be displayed in the layout on the main music page are the only videos listed. 8 for Today's Hits and 12 for each genre due to the layout.
Let us say you wanted to play a genre of music for example Pop/Rock
(Which has now changed finally while writing this question/desc. but still only holds popular artists)
If I were to click Play Pop/Rock, I end up with a Mike Posner Mix of 36 videos including Wiz Khalifa - Youngin On His Grind which is somehow Pop/Rock ...
In the previous setup of the music page, I was pretty sure there were alot more ways to traverse artists and even check up on rising ones too.
Can someone please explain what is going on in the /music section so I can understand how to use it properly ?
I thought maybe there was a next way to do search so I started checking out Google Music and well that got nowhere since it is still in the US.
AI: Since youTube changed the music section and it is now pretty much useless.
The nearest thing to what you want would be http://www.youtube.com/charts
You can then filter this by music and the most viewed, most popular etc. The problem with this is that you can't filter by genre.
All in all the changes made to the music section totally suck. |
H: How to migrate from a Hotmail account
Is there an easy way to move from a Hotmail account to something else, like a Gmail account or a new Hotmail account?
Without losing all the folders, emails, contacts, etc.
AI: You can use Windows Live Mail to download all your Hotmail messages, and then copy them over to your Gmail account. (Instructions here) You don't need Outlook.
Note that you'll have to have IMAP enabled on Gmail in order to use this method. |
H: Why is Gmail in an iFrame?
I would like for someone to explain the reason that Google's Gmail is placed inside of an iFrame HTML element instead of simply placing the code in the document itself.
AI: According to the Gmail blog, an iFrame is used to host the code which handles gmail so that messages opened in new windows can be used without having to reload resources, and can persist even if the parent window is closed. See this blog post for some more details on how it works.
For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests. |
H: "Diff" for websites
I seem to remember a while back seeing a website that would generate a 'diff' like report (highlight differences between versions) to show what had been changed on that site.
For example, if you noticed that there was a recent date on a company's privacy policy page, you could plug it in, and it'd show what had been removed or added.
Does anyone know of any sites or tools that exist to do this?
(I know about the Internet Archive, and I'm assuming that's what the site made use of to get their older version to compare to ... but I want it to highlight the changes)
AI: Check out these sites:
http://www.changedetection.com/
http://trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.trackengine.ui.Login
http://watchthatpage.com/
http://www.aignes.com/
http://versionista.com/
This blog post has a review of some these sites and their features.
http://marshallk.com/a-review-of-web-site-change-detection-services |
H: Why has Photos replaced Reader on iGoogle navigation menu?
In my iGoogle list (when logged into Gmail), I currently have:
Gmail Calendar Documents Photos Web More v
Until today, I had:
Gmail Calendar Documents Reader Web More v
My question is, why did it change from Reader to Photos and how do I change it back?
AI: It looks like somebody did something and it might get fixed.
From a Google Employee on their official forums:
Hi folks,
Sorry if I caused confusion with my first post - I meant to say that we're trying to get the Google Reader link fixed in Gmail. Google Reader itself isn't broken.
Until we do, you can find the link to Google Reader by clicking on 'More' at the top of your Gmail window- Reader is the first in the drop down menu.
Cheers,
Shirley |
H: How do I buy extra email quota for Google Apps for Domain accounts?
I manage a Google Apps domain with about ten users on it. Only one of the users is a really heavy email user and is about to fill up her email quota. I would like to find a way to add extra quota to that user. The only information I can find from the Google help is that I must upgrade all the users to the business edition. Is there any way that I can just buy some more quota for a single user?
AI: No you can't do that and you will have to upgrade to the Google Apps for Business in order to get more space.
From the FAQ for Google Apps:
Can I have a subset of employees on Google Apps for Business and others on Google Apps?
Google Apps does not support Google Apps and Google Apps for Business user accounts as part of the same organization's Google Apps account. |
H: imageshack / quick host for webpages?
if I just want to quickly upload an html page as one would upload an image to imageshack. how would I do that?
no signing up
AI: You can do it with ge.tt for any kind of files; not only for html.
I uploaded a file called hello.html and I'm getting a link to it which looks like this:
http://ge.tt/4yK8elh
Playing around I managed to get a direct link to the file, without downloading it, through this address:
http://ge.tt/4yK8elh/hello.html
Which finally redirects you to something bigger:
http://get.ge.tt/4yK8elh/hello.html?d=1.BtQNmVQJdvaix0MFAzMoukyDO8TVxTh%252Fpio7wxEFvxIys0wPRT%252FTBGAi8gROVBJI5fKJlXXjy5riS8C4yTsk%252BVBD1RnL3W3ykVFltSGPtPpwGbX9S9QR2TjAHnQi6TH97HQQCLW35zVX6zmAD%252FV5FRDXHUBb0BB%252BkJqN%252FjDHJqkyUDkZ1ymCNg%252FJXhzktS6FxdJmSNKlWpJ8C3p18R4MhA%253D%253D |
H: How to track user activity on a website without requiring login?
I was just searching for a review on Yelp and I saw these (Useful, Funny, Cool) evaluation tags for a review. I was able to mark them even when I was not logged in, still they would retain the way I marked them even if I open a new browser window, or a private browsing session.
How is this done? I mean how does it track user activity without requiring me to login/signup?
I don't know if its cookies or the site stores my IP address or a combination of both?
AI: Storing this in cookies/session is the way to go. In PHP you can just use the $_SESSION functionality to do this. More info on that here.
This will not work if the user opens a private browsing session, though. IP tracking would work, but IP addresses change due to ISP assignments and may represent different users (for example, two users in one home sharing the same DSL connection). For these reasons this is not recommended. |
H: Not getting sub date granularity in Google Sheets trend lines
My data is in variable increments, anywhere from six to eight hours apart like so:
1-1-2011 00:00:00 100
1-2-2011 00:00:00 103
1-3-2011 00:00:00 107
1-4-2011 00:00:00 109
1-4-2011 06:00:00 111
1-4-2011 10:00:00 120
1-4-2011 14:00:00 132
1-4-2011 20:00:00 176
1-5-2011 00:00:00 190
1-5-2011 09:30:00 221
1-5-2011 15:00:00 250
1-5-2011 19:15:00 272
etc...
When I build a trend line graph, every one of those entries on the 4th and 5th are stacked up in a horizontal line, then it jumps over to the 5th where they stack up again. End result is a stair step instead of a nice growth curve.
I built a test spreadsheet with the above test data. It of course works like a charm. Even after adding a second series.
Anyone have an idea what I might have broken that prevents me from getting sub date granularity on Google Sheet's trend line graphs?
AI: Ok, it appears to be caused by entering just enough data to tip the balance somehow. Throw this data into a sheet and apply a timeline chart. You'll get a nice curved line.
1/11/2011 00:00:00 1173
1/12/2011 00:00:00 1270
1/13/2011 00:00:00 1387
1/14/2011 00:00:00 1434
1/15/2011 00:00:00 1458
1/17/2011 00:00:00 1531
1/18/2011 00:00:00 1567
1/19/2011 00:00:00 1598
1/20/2011 00:00:00 1624
1/21/2011 12:14:00 1643
1/21/2011 12:30:00 1722
1/21/2011 13:30:00 1863
1/21/2011 14:00:00 1895
1/21/2011 16:45:00 1990
1/21/2011 19:23:00 2026
1/21/2011 23:59:59 2060
1/22/2011 11:00:00 2134
1/22/2011 19:46:00 2184
1/23/2011 14:00:00 2232
Now add this additional row:
1/10/2011 00:00:00 893
Boom, stair steps.
(this is a screen shot of the test chart I linked to in the question.)
What's sad is that it appears to be an intentional data simplification. If the data in the cart bounces up and down within a day, then they don't seem to compress it. it's only if there is only growth or decline, then they compress it to day scoped as soon as you get enough data. It does not appear to be related to the total span of the data, as I did experiments with having the 1/10 data in place, and removing the 1/15 data returns you to a smooth curve.
Short of getting someone from Google to comment on this, I don't think we're going to get a better answer. :( |
H: Is it possible to import/download someone else's public Picasa album?
Does Picasa or any tool download someone else's public album?
AI: You can download public web albums but there are a couple of caveats:
Although the album is public the owner of the album has to manually allow downloads of the album.
Settings > Privacy & Permissions > Allow any visitor to: > Check "Download my Photos"
You can only only download albums using the Desktop application - it can't be done using the web version. |
H: How to really reply to all in Gmail?
I receive mails through a distribution list (Google Group) from people that do not belong to the list (it's explicitly allowed that they can send us mails without belonging to the group).
The problem is that if I hit "reply to all", the sender is not included in the reply, only the group and other CC'd addresses are, and I need to manually add them.
Is there some way to configure Gmail to add them? Via a Lab or something else at least?
AI: I found that the only way to "fix" this is from the groups settings, apparently it's a feature.
Selecting the last option fixed my problem. You have to be an admin in the group to do it though, but you can always ask the admin to do it for you if you're not. |
H: Embed Next Google Calendar event
I have a Google Calendar embedded in my website but I want the sidebar of my website to contain the next upcoming event. Is there some kind of Calendar API that I can use to embed only the next event?
AI: Yes, there is a Google Calendar API and they also have a command line utility called GoogleCL. |
H: Is there any instant voting poll creator online?
I would like to create voting polls with shortened URLs like this:
http://instantpool.com/b5aH3 (not a real site)
It will open a web page where the you can vote on a specific subject and show the results.
AI: Doodle.com allows you to schedule events or create polls of any kinds.
See their example test poll at :
http://www.doodle.com/BSPafv8m95xnewtg |
H: How can I see all of the links I've ever posted from the new Jan. 2011 Facebook profile?
There used to be a box on the lower left-hand side of my facebook profile where I could see the links I'd most recently posted, and then click to see all the links I had ever posted previously. That box seems nonexistant in the layout redesign that went into effect in January, 2011. With this new layout, where can I see all my links? I'm looking for something I shared some time ago, and can't find it!
AI: I am not sure why they removed it but,
It is under the following format
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=[YOUR_FACEBOOK_ID]
and your friends' recent links are http://www.facebook.com/posted.php
The above does not work anymore - Tuesday 15th November 2011
Here is a chart done by this page that shows recent applications that show links |
H: looking for jQuery seekAttention plugin
I'm looking for the jQuery seekAttention plugin that used to be at http://enhance.qd-creative.co.uk/demo/seekAttention/ but now that is non-existent. That's a nice little plugin to darken the whole page except one element for a short time. Searching on google for the plugin yields dozens of results, but they are all pointing to that same resource above, like www.webappers.com/2008/09/25/seek-attention-jquery-plugin/.
Does anyone have a copy to share?
AI: Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.shiguenori.com/material/seekAttention/ |
H: How can I remove myself as a viewer from a Google Docs document?
I was an editor of a private Google Docs spreadsheet, and the current owner of the spreadsheet is another person. I cannot remember if I could move the spreadsheet to the recycle bin, but I could edit the permissions and I removed myself... After doing that, I can't move it to the recycle bin, nor unsubscribe from that document.
The documents are stuck in my folders. Unfortunately, I also have some web-public documents. Is there any way to unsubscribe myself from those documents completely?
AI: If you click the checkbox beside an item you do not own and hit the delete button, it will tell you that it cannot destroy the document but will ask if you want to remove it from view. If you own the document, it will give you the option of trashing it for everyone or selecting a new owner. |
H: Gmail canned response with attachments
I would like to store an email messages with text and attachments as a sort of canned response. This is particularly useful since I sometimes feel it necessary to send out a pre-crafted message to select recipients, which is why I do not use filters in conjunction with canned responses.
Currently the most convenient option for me is to craft my email as a draft and just keep forwarding it to people. This method works great since all of the attachments remain attached and the text remain in tact as well. The downside is if I don't forward the message and send my draft, I need to save the message as a draft all over again. Additionally, whenever you forward a message a little header get thrown into the top of the message body and deleting it every time is annoying.
Another option is to use the canned responses to save the text of the message that I want to send but no attachment support is available. The closest anyone has come has been to place images in the signature via link to stored file on the web but that is really not a direct route, and this only works apparently with canned responses used in conjunction with filters.
Go back to Outlook :(
This is the last step and I don't want to take it.
AI: This is not currently possible with Gmail as it currently exists as you've already figured out. Your most straightforward option is probably to use an e-mail client. You don't want Outlook; how about Thunderbird?
Another option might be using something like Auto Hot Key that would allow you to kick off the process of attaching to a message with just a few keystrokes.
Personally, I think the best option would be to upload these files to any of the many filesharing services out there and include the instructions for downloading the file (usually just a link to a URL) in your canned message. |
H: Temporarily accessing gmail via http instead of https
I'm usually accessing gmail via https. Certain wifi providers (at airports for example) forbid https connections, but allow http. Is there a quick way to force gmail to use http? (http://gmail.com redirects to https://...)
AI: If these WiFi providers forbid all https connections, then you are out of luck. All gmail logins go over https, and there is no way to change that. It's only once you're in the session that you have the option to use http instead of https. Leaving your session unencrypted on public WiFi might not be the best idea either (see Facebook and Firesheep as an example). |
H: Sort by emails in Gmail by subject line
Is there a way to sort the email I get in Gmail by the subject?
I don't mind if I have to use a Greasemonkey script, but I haven't found anything relevant.
I don't want to use third-party email applications to do this. I want to be able to sort my email using the Gmail web interface.
AI: It's not possible, even with greasemonkey, as some of the messages/conversations you want to sort might not be on the page at the time — they could be pushed back to pages 2,3,4,etc, and thus invisible to greasemonkey.
But this is google, and google is, after all, founded on search. If you click the little Show search options link just to the right of the search box, you'll get a page that allows you to search based on subject only (as well as many other fields). This is likely a lot more efficient than sorting anyway. |
H: Can I use Google Docs Editor for files not in my Google Docs Account
I know it is possible to use the Google Docs Viewer with any publicly accessible worddoc or pdf file. Is it possible to do the same with the google docs editor? Is there a way I can give a URL to a .doc file and load it into google docs to be edited and added (if the user wishes) to my google docs account? I appreciate I can't update the file at the URL, but really all I want is for the doc to be able to be edited slightly and then either printed or downloaded?
Is this possible, or do I have to go the full api route?
I will take any answer, but I am particuarily interested in php.
AI: In this viewer you can Edit online or just save it in your Google Docs:
I think they don't have a direct link that you could use to simply convert the files and have them in the edit mode directly. You might have to take the API route. |
H: What's a good site to setup a support forum?
I have a small software company and we have a forum (WebWiz Forums) on our site. Honestly, with all the spammer attacks, it's more hassle than it's worth.
I'd like to outsource the forum to some 3rd party site. What's a good site to setup a forum on?
It needs to have the following qualities:
Free
Reliable
Handle spam properly
If they want to display ads, I am ok with that
It does not necessarily need to be under my domain name. It could be mycompany.TheForumCompany.com
AI: FreeForums.org looks pretty good.
Features include:
Custom Admin Panel
Over 150 different styles
Ability to add Modules for extra functionality
24/7 Support
Spam prevention
99.9% uptime
Unlimited bandwidth
There is also the ability to upgrade your package:
Host on your own domain - $15 per year
Ad Removal - $4.95 a month
Copyright removal - $10 per year |
H: How do I get Google (or others) to pay me for putting ads on my site?
Let's say that I have a super popular blog and I want to start making some ad revenue from the people that come there. I'm looking for a basic "how-to" and possibly some links to get me started.
How do I set it up so that ads are automatically placed on my page and so that when someone clicks them I am automatically paid?
AI: The quickest is using one of your tags - google adsense. Apply and paste their javascript code into your site. You get paid for every click of an ad.
You can also sell your adspace on a market like buysellads.com, assuming you have enough traffic and a topic that people would like to advertise on. There advertisers will put their ads on your site. You simply get paid for them putting it there or by impressions. |
H: How can I search for Gmail conversations that have more than one e-mail?
I previously used a service that sent me Slashdot articles as individual e-mails. All I had to do was give them the RSS url, and they handled the rest. On the Gmail side, I simply made a filter, labeling these e-mails as "News".
Once I stopped using the service, I realized that I had more than 20,000 such e-mails stockpiled. While I could delete all "News" e-mails, there are some that I've forwarded to friends, sometimes receiving multiple replies. These conversations are valuable - I would like to keep them.
As far as I can tell, there's no way to search for conversations that have more than one e-mail in the thread. Up until now, I've been deleting them page by page, carefully de-selecting the conversations that have more than one e-mail; however, it will take far too much time to complete. Is there an easier way that I'm missing?
AI: I have a similar situation where I email a lot of things to myself from Google Reader, I can filter the ones that I have forwarded though by using the to: field.
In this case:
"google reader" to:!me
Where the ! mark finds all emails sent to NOT me.
Then you can label these and filter again:
label:News !label:Keep
This will find all News NOT with the label Keep. |
H: How to get alerted when someone views a Youtube video
I have a Youtube account with several videos. I often like to refresh the video page to see if the view count on any of my videos have gone up. Is there a way to automatically be alerted when someone views one of my videos?
AI: Your views are not updated in real time so there is no way to know exactly when somebody actually seen your video. As for notifications I don't think that there is a way (at least not directly from YouTube) because it would be quite annoying to receive notifications for viral videos. |
H: How can I change the default Gmail return address?
In Gmail, when I compose an email, it defaults to using my Gmail address as the return address.
Is there a way to change it such that the default return address is one of my other return addresses registered with Gmail, so that I don't have to manually do this on each new composed email?
AI: Go to Setting at the top of the Gmail screen then click Accounts and Imports.
The second set of options/settings is Send mail as: where you should see the accounts you have linked and are available. Click the link make default next to the other email address you want to use (your Gmail account should currently show default where the link would normally be). |
H: Viewing items bought more than 60 days ago in eBay
Does anyone know if it is possible to view items I bough more than 60 days ago on eBay?
AI: see replies 1 and 5 here: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/My-Ebay/Viewing-Past-Orders/520189127&start=0
Reply number 1: There isn't any way to do that on eBay at present. You can, however, go over to PayPal and look up your history.
Reply number 5: We are working on a new feature that will let you see purchases from the last three years. We are just now opening it to a small test group for feedback and are not yet sure whether we will launch it to a wider audience.
One of the feedback channels will be through this forum--in fact, I'll just use this thread!! The group from this channel will be limited to 25. If you'd like to be in that test group, please reply in this thread and I will add you assuming we are still under 25 (we are now).
Here's what you'll see if you sign up for the test group:
To see purchases for the last three years, go to either the Won page or the All Buying page. Then scroll to the bottom of the Won container. Under the pagination area, you will see the link called "Go to past purchases," like the one shown here.
The most recent 60 days are still shown in the Won container. The purchases from day 61 to the last three years are on the Past Purchases page. There are currently no item images available.
The feedback I'm looking for is:
How useful is this feature?
Do you have general comments about the display?
Like I said, we have a small test group started, but if anyone else would like to join (up until the 25 limit), please let me know in this thread. I will use the user ID from your reply. |
H: How to change video in YouTube channel
On my YouTube channel it shows the latest video that I uploaded.
Can I change it to a different video?
AI: To change the featured video on your channel page, follow the steps below:
Sign in and go to your channel page.
On your channel page select the 'Videos and Playlists' tab.
Select the video you'd like to feature from the "Featured video" dropdown or select "Use the most recent video from my featured set."
Click the Save Changes button.
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97392
Hope this helps. |
H: What's the difference between google apps and web apps on the Chrome web Store?
Even though I think many may find this question stupid, nevertheless I wanted to understand it. Also, are Google apps the one made using the Google App engine while the Chrome Web Store apps made using the Google Web Kit (GWT)? Is there any difference between the these two types of apps as far as the end user is concerned ? If not then why does Google need to have them hosted on separate urls?
AI: Google Apps:
A suite of applications that are created, run and hosted by Google, which can be used by organizations / educational institutions. These include Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contacts, Chat and some other stuff. Also gives you a Google id of the form [email protected]. All apps are also hosted on your own domain.
Google App Engine: A platform that Google provides on which you can write your own application, in either Python or Java. You write the app and upload it to Google, and they run it on their servers. They also expose some APIs which you can use for things like data storage, chat, email, images, authentication, etc.
Chrome Web Store: A marketplace that collects applications written in HTML / Javascript, and hosted on any server. Some of these apps may use APIs specific to Chrome to provide extra functionality while running in Chrome.
GWT: A framework that compiles Java code into Javascript code. It only deals with client side code and is server agnostic.
You can use Google Apps to provide mail, docs, chat services to your business. You can write any custom applications you want and host it on App Engine, or somewhere else. You could add the application you wrote to the Chrome Web Store if you want to. Finally, you could write the client side code for your app in Java if you want to, and compile it using GWT.
Does that help? |
H: How do I send a tweet to someone specific?
As an example, on the Science Friday radio show and podcast, the host says every week "tweet your questions and comments to us." The same phrase is used on the show's website at http://www.sciencefriday.com/about/contact/. I don't understand how to do that. How do I direct a tweet so that someone who is not following me receives it and my followers do not receive it?
As another example, a company I do business with is asking that technical support questions be directed to their Twitter handle.
It does not seem like Twitter is designed for this. Am I missing something? Or are they asking for something else?
AI: I think you are thinking about it differently.
These companies rely on your promotion. So when the host says every week
tweet your questions and comments to
us.
They are asking for you to
1) Follow them / Place them a list - They want to know that you are looking at their timeline and that your followers see that you are following the company
2) Mention {@username} them / Reply. Here you are promoting communication to the Radio Show, depending on how their twitter client is set up, these "mentions" will be received by the user/company in a better format than
Science Friday Rocks
which then all tweets on Science Friday will need to be searched by hand. They could have used a #hashtag (e.g. #scifri instead ,thus clumping the event messages) to achieve the same objective.
On inspecting the site you have linked it seems directions are given as to what to do to ensure your message is received
Use Twitter? follow @scifri to get our updates, and tweet your questions and comments to us during the program.
I have hyperlinked the relevant portion of their message. So there are three ways I know that you could have found their account on twitter.
1) http://twitter.com/#!/@scifri
2) http://twitter.com/@scifri
3) http://twitter.com/scifri
Any would lead to their twitter account.
Now I do not know much about scifri but it does not seem like they acknowledge receipt of your mentions via their account. Maybe during their podcast (Fridays, 2-4 pm Eastern time), the interesting comments/questions are selected for the rest of the audience to see.
In your next example with support requests, I think you should look at
http://twitter.com/support
and
http://twitter.com/delbius
who are representatives for Twitter Support Team, as said on the support account page
Make sure you are following us if you'd like a response to your DM
I would hope that the company you are working with executes this in a similar manner
Ensure whatever needs to be sent in private will be done as a direct message
If the information can benefit the customers at large then it shall be broadcasted in public
Companies also tend to use Twitter to try to persuade users into writing shorter questions (getting content into 140 characters) so that they can read and respond as quickly as it was sent. |
H: Does webring.com have a method of canceling your service?
I recently joined http://www.webring.com which was a mistake. It is just another crappy website that I'd like to delete my account on? Anyone know how?
They recently enraged me with this amusing paragraph at the bottom of an emai:
To manage receipt of email, or cancel this account, please visit your My Account area - http://www.webring.com/mbr - This is an account you created, so there is no "unsubscribe". This is a transactional email under CAN-SPAM guidelines, not commercial or unsolicited email.
AI: Wow - that site really is bad.
Anyway from this FAQ article you need to do the following:
How do I delete my account?
To delete your WebRing account, you
must first quit any WebRing Commuities
(rings) in which you are a member. To
do this, follow these steps:
Log into WebRing and view your My Account page.
Scroll down and click the Memberships tab to open the list of
your ring memberships.
Click on your Site Title(s) to bring up the Edit Site Information
page.
Find and click the "Delete Site from Ring" link in the left column of
that page.
Repeat this process until you have deleted your site(s) from all the
rings you belong to. (There is no way
to do this for all rings at once. It
must be done one ring at a time.)
If you manage any rings, you must
dispose of them. You may transfer
management to another member of the
ring, or to some other WebRing member,
or you may delete a ring that has no
members.
Once all your memberships are deleted,
you will find the "Delete This User
ID" link in the left column of your My
Account page. Once you click that
link, you will end your membership in
WebRing. |
H: View all foursquare venue photos online?
I've noticed Foursquare has recently started allowing users to upload photos with their check-ins. Is there a way of viewing all the photos uploaded for a venue?
AI: According to the Foursquare FAQ you can only view uploaded (check-in) photos if you are friends with the person checking in or they post them to Twitter & Facebook (and you are friends/follow them). Photos added via check-ins are available through the persons activity, history and checkin detail pages.
Venue Photos are public and can be viewed by anyone on the Venue page.
What is the difference between a check-in photo and a venue photo?
If you add a photo to your check-in,
only your foursquare friends can view
it (or anyone who can see your posts
on Twitter/Facebook if you've posted
it there!). If you add a photo from
the venue view, it's a public venue
photo that any foursquare user can
see. |
H: Where do my emails go when I click on 'Archive' in Gmail?
I selected a few important mails and mistakenly clicked on Archive.
I don't know where that mails are? Where can I find them?
AI: In the left pane there should be an "All Mail" option. If there isn't, expand the down arrow that should say something like "6 more" (see screenshot below), and click All Mail. Select them and you can move them back to the inbox if desired. |
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